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Tansania

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The land lends us more self-knowledge than all books since it offers resistence. Struggle helps us with insight. A hard working farmer with tools like a plow keeps digging up truths.
 

Our route trough Tansania
 

 
A green, awful and equally wet atmosphere awaits us in Tanzania.  The famous Serengeti, Masai Mara and Ngorongoro national parks are found here.  Kilimanjaro with its elevation of 5,895m and is magical vegetation and Mount Meru at 4,556m above sea level are not reachable by climbers.  It is important to acclimate oneself here and many organizations offer their services

 

 
and know-how.  We drive out to the coast at Pangani. Here there is a nice friendly camping place.  In the morning it rains again.  This does not keep us here.  Acre for acre as far as the eye can see everything is cultivated.  Tomatoes, corn, sugar, coffee, tea, bananas, palm trees, pineapple and much more.  Everything is wildly intermingled and all is done by hand.  Tanzania has a size of  945,087km2 and 25,965,000 inhabitants.  Until the end of the First World War Tanzania was a German colony and was then overtaken by the English.  A baobab forest spans over a ridge; the yellow and lavender colored vetches growing in-between form a beautiful picture.  One finds Baobabs in the all sizes and forms here.  Shortly after the Mikumi National Park we look for a place to rest again.  Bush camping in the bush is not easy when you can barely find a path off the road.  Finally we arrive at something resembling a side street above the Large Rhuaha River.  Up until the arrival of dusk it is wonderful.  Then the mosquitoes arrive.  Tanzania is a passageway for us and we cross from one mountain range to the other between Iringa and Mbeya. The mountain ranges reach up to 2,400m above the sea. Lake Tanaanika lies quite to the west of the land and is similar in size to the Lake Malawi.  Our next goal is Malawi, which we reach on the 17th of May. 
 

 
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